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What a good but sad post Joel, wholeheartedly agree with all you say, have followed Leeds and loved football of all degrees for 53 years, and I've never been so out of love for it as I have this season, none of it has been enjoyable, absolutely none, I've watched very little as I've been so despondent with our performances. I always knew the bielsa era would end, but I ever envisaged it to be as poor as this, as del boy said..."i always wanted to be a millionaire, but it's not what I thought it would be"...i feel that way about the Premier league, after 16 years it's beyond recognition, monopolised by the big 6 and fawned over by the pundits and media, nothing else matters. Wherever we end up, and I believe it will be the championship as I can't see us getting another point let alone the 5 or 6 we need, I hope we play decent exiting football so it's enjoyable again, maybe as del boy also said...... "it was the thrill of the chase to get there".
I've watched quite a bit of football, just not much of it played by Leeds as your description of what we have done is spot on. Of that I have watched, a fair bit has been the EFL coverage and frankly I have enjoyed it much more than the majority of the PL games, no matter who was playing. Of course there are some fabulous players in the "ranking" PL clubs, and their performances are usually great to watch (not perfect, quite), but as a whole, I would say that Championship football is more that exciting style that we had in our last season there and first season in the PL. It's a shame, for a host of reasons, that if we do go down we will miss the likes of Burnley and the Blades. Maybe there is history between us, but present day play and the way they are set up is very reminiscent of how Bielsa had us playing, would be nice to revisit that sooner rather than later.

There will still be teams that play fast, attractive entertaining football, the likes of Millwall, Boro, Sunderland (and for some there would be less travelling involved, fewer clubs "darn sarf" to visit!) although one of the North East clubs might up up via the playoffs. My worry is that with the kind of upheaval that Leeds would have to go through (The exec would have to go, ownership change, and a whole new player management team (head coach/manager, gk/set piece/defensive/attacking coaches etc.) brought in, and bedded in before start of the season, we just won't be in a fit state to compete with those who were "nearly there" this season.